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Charting Impact

What is your organization aiming to accomplish?

Nashville Zoo strives to create a world-class zoological park with appeal to visitors and a strong commitment to education, species conservation and habitat protection. Major goals include providing an entertaining and educational experience, increasing the public's understanding and appreciation of the natural world around them, promoting public awareness of animals and conservation issues, and providing the highest code of ethics in the humane care and welfare of our animals.

What are your strategies for making this happen?

In order to educate our guests about the dangers faced by animals, Nashville Zoo's works in a variety of ways to provide information to the public. In 2016, over 275,000 individuals were reached by educational programming at the Zoo, in addition to nearly 20,000 who experienced zoo animals though outreach programming. Programming includes animal encounters throughout the park, animal shows, interactive exhibits, field trips, Zoo Teens, and summer, spring break and fall break camps. The Zoo also brings animals to off-site programming in schools, hospitals, senior citizen homes and many other places to spread conservation messaging. Utilizing diverse learning opportunities, the Zoo's overall conservation and education goals are to inspire and empower our guests to affect change for the better. Close-up contact with zoo animals makes a valuable and long-lasting impression on students. Metro Nashville Public Schools with Title I status are given a significant discount on their field trip rate to encourage their participation and ensure that all students, regardless of income level, are able to have access to zoo programming.

What are your organization's capabilities for doing this?

Professional staff from the education and behavioral husbandry departments are solely focused on bringing conservation messaging to our guests and spreading that message throughout the community. These departments are are comprised of approximately 20 dedicated individuals who are a regular part of the Zoo staff. Docents and Zoo Teens are stationed throughout the Zoo to answer questions, share information and enlighten visitors. Reaching our goals requires the time and investment of our staff and volunteers and those people are in place and supported by the Zoo to effectively enlighten our guests.

How will your organization know if you are making progress?

Progress indicators to meet our goals are twofold: 1) money donated to support conservation efforts and 2) guests responses to surveys to gauge their knowledge gains and potential future actions.

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Charting Impact encourages strategic thinking about how an organization intends to achieve its goals.
The end result is a report that lets nonprofits share concise, detailed information about plans
and progress with key stakeholders, including the public.
This data is provided directly by nonprofits to GuideStar via their Nonprofit Profile.

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Program names and associated costs are listed for the top programs as reported on the charity's most recently filed Form 990. The top programs displayed will include the largest three programs, or those programs covering at least 60% of the charity's total expenses, whichever comes first.

Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes. 509(a)(2)

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